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Mercedes’ Technical Director James Allison says Lewis Hamilton’s exit “was explicitly a thing that we were prepared to happen or else we wouldn’t have put it as an option in the contract”.
The Formula 1 world was very surprised when it was announced that Lewis Hamilton would leave Mercedes at the end of 2024.
However, when asked if Lewis’ exit was surprising, Mercedes’ Technical Director James Allison said he and the team were not surprised as they knew there was an ‘exit clause’ in his contract.
“Not massively,” the Briton said.
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“I was surprised at the manner in which it happened, the timing of it. But I was aware of the nature of the contract we’d offered and the nature of the contract we’d offered permitted that to happen.
“So if it then happened, we shouldn’t be surprised because that was explicitly a thing that we were prepared to happen or else we wouldn’t have put it as an option in the contract.
“So the precise timing and sequencing of when it happened, that I think caught everyone a bit on the hop, but that it did happen, I don’t think was unpredictable,” Allison concluded.
